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Add SEIU to Clark’s list of union backers

By Paul Demko | 09.29.09 | 11:53 am

Tarryl Clark continues to roll up the union endorsements. The latest is from the Service Employees International Union’s state council. About the only politically influential union that hasn’t yet backed Clark in her quest to unseat U.S. Rep. Michele…

UNITE HERE divorce continues to play out in Minnesota

By Paul Demko | 07.21.09 | 6:00 am

The slow-motion UNITE HERE labor meltdown continues both locally and nationally. The merger of the two storied unions, completed five years ago, has been acrimoniously unraveling over the last nine months. But one local entanglement appears to have resolved itself: This week negotiations will begin on a new contract for roughly 75 workers at the Radisson Hotel in Duluth.